Deployment surface and attack surface expanding at the same rate.
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China's grid deploys 500 humanoids to high-voltage work
Claim
China's State Grid is deploying 500 humanoid robots for high-voltage operations, where the optimal failure mode becomes a melted servo rather than a melted operator, while fifteen chemical-spraying drones were stolen in New Jersey with the FBI investigating.
Reported metric: 500 robots / 15 drones
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
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